Trump Busts Brennan, Cuomo Was Never Great, Clinton & Kareem

Thursday, August 16, 2018

Trump Busts Brennan
 
Yesterday we told you that President Trump had revoked former CIA Director John Brennan's security clearance.  Judging from the media's insane reaction, you would think the president had just run the Constitution through the Oval Office shredder.  Let me run through Brennan's history one more time. 
 
While serving President Obama, Brennan downplayed the threat posed by ISIS. 
 
He cooperated on the Iranian nuclear deal that sent billions of dollars to a sworn enemy of the United States, and one that dreams of a second Holocaust of the Jewish people.  He accused critics of the deal of being "wholly disingenuous." 
 
He likely committed perjury on multiple occasions during congressional testimony about government spying on the public and even on Congress itself.
 
He was complicit in the effort to deceive the American people about the attack on our consulate in Benghazi, claiming it had something to do with a movie.
 
He had evidence of Russian meddling in our election, but did nothing because he and everyone else thought Hillary Clinton was going to win.
 
Since leaving the CIA, Brennan has become a two-bit commentator on left-wing TV networks.  And a glance at Brennan's unhinged Twitter feed makes it clear that his only goal is to try to discredit and overthrow the duly elected president of the United States.
 
The scandal here isn't that Donald Trump revoked Brennan's security clearance.  The president has full authority to make such determinations.  No, the real scandal is that Brennan even had a security clearance in the first place!
 
Every American who loves our country should thank the president for making sure this left-wing partisan hack no longer has access to top secret information.
 
 
 
Cuomo Was Never Great
 
Speaking at what was supposed to be a bill signing ceremony for an anti-sex trafficking law, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo launched into a tirade against President Trump, and declared:
 
"We're not going to make America great again. It was never that great.  We have not reached greatness. 
 
"We will reach greatness when every American is fully engaged.  We will reach greatness when discrimination and stereotyping against women . . . is gone and every woman's full potential is realized and unleashed and every woman is making her full contribution."
 
Various press reports indicated that Cuomo's remarks drew "audible gasps" and "an awkward blend of gasps and chuckles" from the "shocked" audience.
 
But there are a lot of people who seem inclined to share Mr. Cuomo's view.  For example, the people who tear down monuments to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson certainly think America was "never that great." 
 
It is the mindset of NFL kneelers protesting the "systemic injustice" of the nation and other so-called "progressives" who insist that America must be "fundamentally transformed" because, after all, it was "never that great."
 
 
 
Trump Responds
 
Not surprisingly, Cuomo's comments also elicited a response from President Trump, who tweeted that Cuomo was "having a total meltdown!"  The governor answered by tweeting:
 
"What you say would be 'great again' would not be great at all. . . We will not go back to discrimination, segregation, sexism, isolationism, racism or the KKK."
 
While that certainly seems to be all our colleges are teaching about American history these days, I certainly hope the governor sees more than just those things in America's past.
 
In the early 20th Century, millions of immigrants, including Andrew Cuomo's grandparents, came from all over the world to America.  Many entered through Ellis Island, which is part of the state he now governs.  They must have seen something pretty great in America that made them leave their families and the countries of their birth.
 
 
 
Clinton & Kareem
 
On the same day that Andrew Cuomo was questioning America's greatness, Hillary Clinton praised an 11 year-old girl for kneeling during the Pledge of Allegiance.  Clinton urged the girl to "Keep up the good work" protesting injustice.
 
Tuesday, former NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar published an op-ed in which he compared our national anthem to a song sung by slaves, with President Trump and NFL owners and coaches as slave masters demanding they sing.
 
First of all, nobody is insisting that these athletes sing.  The president's point is that they should stand respectfully.  He has no power to make then do so, but he has every right -- and I would suggest an obligation as president -- to express his opinion that our national anthem be respected. 
 
And to compare millionaire football players, some of the most privileged people in America, to slaves is repugnant.